Sentence examples for strapping from inspiring English sources

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The word "strapping" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone (or something) that is strongly built or physically substantial. For example: "The strapping soldier carried two boxes of supplies up the hill with ease."

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strapping

verb

Present participle of strap

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The 24-year-old had contributed a goal in a typically livewire performance before having ice and strapping applied to his leg.

Instead, Lily is pitched at skiers and snowboarders, athletes and other active types: a hovering alternative to strapping a GoPro camera to their helmets, with the benefit of shooting footage of them, rather than just a first-person viewpoint.

Smart pills and connected monitoring patches are already available, highlighting the life-saving potential of IoT, and many people are already strapping smartwatches or fitness bands to their wrists to track their steps or heartbeat while on a run.

He said: "Like Turner strapping himself to the ship's mast in order to create a true likeness of a storm, Yeo time and time again achieves what should be impossible: creating a true picture, an image or a glimpse, of people we think we know and of those we've never met".

The process of suffocation by water involves strapping the individual to a tilted board, with legs above their head, placing a cloth over their face, covering their nose and mouth.

When I tell him that, for all his stated insecurities, he looks like the very picture of strapping Norse masculinity, he replies drily.

I remember with clarity the preparations for the journey – oiling the chain, strapping down our tent, fitting the road map into the laminated pocket on the front of the bike.

Such information can also help to avoid injuries.Instead of being wired up to individual devices, by strapping or sticking on sensors, these are incorporated into the materials the garment is made from.

But most technical improvements are incremental, and revolutionary "flying wing" airliners have proved impractical (they would involve strapping 300 people into an aircraft that flipped and zapped around like a fighter).

Within minutes of strapping yourself into one of the leather seats in the narrow fuselage, your Learjet is zipping along the runway and up into the air.Flying in an executive jet used to be the preserve of millionaires with their own aircraft, tycoons who ran their own businesses or company bosses prepared to justify the use of corporate aircraft to sceptical shareholders.

LEGEND has it that an enterprising Chinese scientist named Wan Hu tried, some 500 years ago, to reach the heavens by strapping fireworks to his body.

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